I try to start most days by reading at least 10 pages. On the days that I do, I've noticed I tend to have a much better day. Embarrassingly, I've only started tracking what I read recently. I'll be backfilling this list to the best of my recollection over the next few months.

2026

No One's Coming

Kevin Hazzard

A Short Introduction to Anneliese

James Elkins

The Rest of Our Lives

Benjamin Markovits

Capitalism

Sven Beckert

Sea Above, Sun Below

George Salis

Your Name Here

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff

The Soviet Century

Karl Schlögel

The Day of Oprichnik

Vladimir Sorokin

The Orange Eats Creeps

Grace Krilanovich

Weak in Comparison to Dreams

James Elkins

2025

Across the Board

Tim Clare

North Sun

Ethan Rutherford

Flesh

David Szalay

Schattenfroh

Michael Lentz

The Möbius Book

Catherine Lacey

Why Nothing Works

Marc Dunkelman

The Invention of Prehistory

Stefanos Geroulanos

Goliath's Curse

Luke Kemp

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

The Ever-Changing Past

James Banner

Shadow Ticket

Thomas Pynchon

Unworld

Jayson Green

Nuclear War

Annie Jacobsen

Weepers

Peter Mendelsund

An Oral History of Atlantis

Ed Park